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Socially Networked: Building Community with Evolver

Socially Networked: Building Community with Evolver

If you’re reading this site, chances are the you’re looking to make a change, either in your own life or something on a larger scale. Maybe you belong to an activist group or maybe you’re just doing the best you can on your own. The social networking site Evolver is a fantastic resource [...]

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#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 6: @ElephantJournal & @LeahLamb

#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 6: @ElephantJournal & @LeahLamb

Now that we are through the end of summer madness, and back in front of the gentle glow of our computer monitors  we are back in full effect with our Green Twitter #ecomonday series This week we bring you two more people leading the sustainability conversation in the Twittersphere…

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#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 5: @Treehumper @EarthIndustry @AmazonPilgrim

#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 5: @Treehumper @EarthIndustry @AmazonPilgrim

As summer is wrapping up I’ve been running around crazy so I haven’t had a chance to connect with last week’s #ecomonday recommendations to get their picks for this week so I’m going to resort to some shameful self-promotion.  This week I’m going to recommend you follow the Twitter accounts for two projects that we [...]

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#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 4: @Michael_GR @DerekMarkham @SeanDaily

#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 4: @Michael_GR @DerekMarkham @SeanDaily

This week’s #ecomonday picks from Olivia Zaleski, Karl Burkhart are two I can really get behind.  First Olivia recommends Michael Graham Richard, a guy who’s been blogging about green issues since 2005.  Karl recommends our very own contributer Derek Markham and I added another great green blogger, Sean Daily…

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#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 3: @OliviaZaleski & @GreenDig

#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 3: @OliviaZaleski & @GreenDig

This week’s #ecomonday suggestions come from one of last weeks green Twitter stars, @SheaGunther.  When Shea tweets, you listen, so check out Olivia Zaleski and Karl Burkart, two prolific Green tweeps…

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#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 2: @sheagunther & @mariaenergia

#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 2: @sheagunther & @mariaenergia

Since Twitter and #ecomonday are all about community, instead of just telling you who I think you should follow, we decided to pass the torch and invite the previously recommended Tweeps to share their recommendations for this weeks #ecomonday.  Last week I recommended David from @thegoodhuman and Adam from @twilightearth.  I contacted them and asked [...]

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#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 1: @TheGoodHuman and @TwilightEarth

#Ecomonday Twitter Suggestions - Vol. 1: @TheGoodHuman and @TwilightEarth

If you’re on Twitter you are probably familiar with #ecomonday (if you’re not, check out the Twittervore’s Dilemma) a Monday tradition of recomending good eco-friendly tweeps.  The problem is that the list of good green tweeps is long and people just blast out tons and tons of suggestions which is hard to keep up with. [...]

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10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell’s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading [...]

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The Twittervore’s Dilemma

The Twittervore’s Dilemma

Twitter is the “All you can eat” buffet of social information on the web with selections that range from mundane to profound, inconsequential to game changing.  With millions of tweets being tweeted everyday the question remains, what should we read on Twitter?

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Green Twitter Guide

Green Twitter Guide

This is a work in progress so bare with us. Sometime’s you’ll need to edit the tweet a bit to make it short enough by taking out extraneous words or changing words like and to &.  Also a tweet may be retweeted several times over and in this case it is only necesarry to put the [...]

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